Publications by authors named "Mia McDade-Kumar"
Article Synopsis
- A new assessment tool called eXploring medical sTudents' caReer reAdiness (XTRA) has been created to evaluate medical students' preparation for their future careers using Super's career maturity theory.
- The instrument includes a 5-point Likert-scale and was tested on 348 students from 41 UK universities, showing good validity and reliability through various statistical analyses.
- XTRA demonstrated a positive correlation between students' self-rated career readiness and specific career planning factors, suggesting it could be useful for guiding and counseling medical students in their career development.
Huntington's disease is caused by an expanded CAG tract in HTT. The length of the CAG tract accounts for over half the variance in age at onset of disease, and is influenced by other genetic factors, mostly implicating the DNA maintenance machinery. We examined a single nucleotide variant, rs79727797, on chromosome 5 in the TCERG1 gene, previously reported to be associated with Huntington's disease and a quasi-tandem repeat (QTR) hexamer in exon 4 of TCERG1 with a central pure repeat.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAims: There has been a dramatic increase in hypoglycaemic agent expenditure. We assessed the variability in prescribing costs at the practice level and the relationship between expenditure and the proportion of patients achieving target glycaemic control.
Methods: We utilized national prescribing data from 406 general practices in Wales.